Gabriel Paez

BIO

Gabriel Paez is a 27-year-old bilingual education coordinator and teacher at a Chicago Public School on the West Side of the city. He began working at the school in West Humboldt Park in 2013, after majoring in Creative Writing and Political Science at Florida State University. His students are heavily impacted by dangerous levels of income inequality, racial segregation, and street violence that now characterize dozens of cities around this country. His students are all of immigrant backgrounds, many with undocumented families. He is also a delegate of the Chicago Teachers Union, and a member of the International Socialist Organization. Gabriel was raised in Spanish, English and Portuguese at home, and lived in Brazil for 6 years during his childhood. In 2017 he graduated from Dominican University with a Masters in Teaching, endorsed in Bilingual Education and ESL.